Krishna wishes to quit as Maharashtra Governor

Citing border dispute as a reason, Maharashtra Governor S M Krishna is understood to have requested the Congress High Command to relieve him from the gubernatorial assignment in Mumbai.

According to sources in the Congress party here, Krishna has urged All India Congress Committee President Sonia Gandhi to relieve him from the post of the Governor in view of the heightened differences over Maharashtra and his home state of Karnataka over the border dispute.

“The border dispute between Karnataka and Maharashtra is hotting up and under such circumstances, it becomes embarrassing for me to function impartially”, he is understood to have to Sonia Gandhi.

Krishna’s stand comes in the wake of Karnataka Government’s decision to hold a legislature session in the border district of Belgaum, which is the bone of contention between the two states.

Krishna, a former Chief Minister of Karnataka, has brought to the party High Command’s notice the incongruity between his nativity and his constitutional position.

Expressing gratitude to the party high command for having appointed him as the Governor of Maharashtra after he had relinquished office as the Chief Minister of Karnataka, Krishna said he will become a suspect in the eyes of politicians from Maharashtra, who are raking up the issue of Belgaum afresh.